Make no mistake, there were those who swung nooses at journalists, shut down businesses already hammered by COVID restrictions for two years, and harassed young women just walking to school. But the overall majority of protesters were peaceful people who were simply and justifiably hurt by being ostracised. They felt they’d done their bit, leaning in to help build a society. Then that society had turned its back on them. […]
ACT is a party that believes in an individual’s freedom of choice and minimal government intervention. Labour’s legislative overreach led to mandates and ostracism and the divisions that have hugely impacted our previously civil society.
If ACT has a say in the future of New Zealand this article is our promise that this overreach and the blunt medical mandates that came with it will never happen again.
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